Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.